On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 04:54:46PM +0100, Ben Kal wrote: > The login process: > > The man pages of > - login > - xdm > - bash or tcsh or any other shell you use > are pretty clear about what happens (mostly what startup scripts they > execute) under what circumstances. Issues to be aware of are: > - xdm replaces login but does not set up the environment in exactly the same > way as login does, in particular it does not set MAIL as you have found > - the shell of an X terminal is not a login shell (the user is already > logged in through xdm) so the startup scripts for login shells, > /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile in the case of bash, are not executed! > This easily causes the environment of shells on virtual consoles to be > radically different from the environment of shells in X terminals.
Yes, so now I'm sourcing those in my .xsession file. > - environment variables have to be set only once and are inherited by all > processes that are children of the login shell or the X session, > but things like aliases and shell options have to be set every time > a shell is started. Good to know. (I'm still not clear about variables shown with "set", but I'm sure that's just a google away...) > To ensure that: > - the environment is the same in all shells > - on startup shells do not read more startup scripts than necessary > I did the following: > - put all settings of environment variables in /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile > - put all aliases and shell options in /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bahsrc > - made /etc/profile source /etc/bash.bashrc > - made ~/.bash_profile source ~/.bashrc > - made ~/.xsession source both /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile, > after setting an environment variable that to /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile > signals that they have been sourced by ~/.xsession; > in that case they do not need to source /etc/bash.bashrc resp. ~/.bashrc, > and instead unset that environment variable. Thanks, that's very helpful. -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
